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... The Bee 5 The Koran 74 30 The Greeks 75 11 Houd 76 1... ... been arrested, but research has shown that what European scholars knew of Greek philosophy, of mathematics, as- tronomy, and like sciences, for sever... ...ar to have been made from the Septuagint, the Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, and Greek; the four Gospels, says Tischendorf 6 originem mixtam habere videntu... ...or the growth of a new power, by the ru- inous strifes of the Persians and Greeks. Abulfeda (Life of Muhammad, p. 76) expressly says that he had promi... ...reat aversion to blue and grey eyes as characteristic of their enemies the Greeks. The word, however, may also mean blind. Comp. v. 124, 5. 24 Lit. t... ... Muhammad derived his doctrines of the Genii from the Persian and In- dian mythology, and attempted to identify them with the 231 The Koran Satan and...

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...le which, in the hands of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the public... ...ttiest sight in the world; and I was on the point of sending all the other Greeks after him, when suddenly hissing waters spurted at me on all sides, ... ...ure represented, whether taken from bibli- cal or profane history, or from mythology; and, even if I did not always hit upon the meaning of allegorica... ...lly into a small academy, in which every thing necessary, and at last even Greek and Latin, were taught. The extensive connections of Frankfort caused... ...studies theology, and writes a very formal Latin, to which he often adds a Greek postscript. T o another brother, holding the place of mercantile cler... ...ention when we came to the letters. I found an alphabet something like the Greek, of which the forms were easy, and the names, for the most part, not ... ...itness, led me hither and thither; when the medley of fable and his- tory, mythology and religion, threatened to bewilder me,—I liked to take refuge i...

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...— “Once-born” and “twice-born” charac- ters— Walt Whitman— Mixed nature of Greek feel- ing—Systematic healthy-mindedness— Its reason- ableness— Libera... ...in success of every life—Pessimism of all pure naturalism— Hopelessness of Greek and Ro- 6 The V arieties of Religious Experience man view— Pathologi... ... as objective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only... ...jective facts to be revered. A brilliant school of interpretation of Greek mythology would have it that in their origin the Greek gods were only half-... ...he more afflicted she is.” B. de St. Pierre. As regards the origin of the Greek gods, we need not at present seek an opinion. But the whole array of ... ...the mere natural ani- mal man without a sense of sin; sometimes it means a Greek or Roman with his own peculiar religious con- sciousness. In neither ...

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... any case, is not this the real death-grapple of war and internecine duel, Greek meeting Greek; whereon men, had they even no interest in it, might lo... ...lks sedition. The lower classes, in this duel of Authority with Authority, Greek throt- tling Greek, have ceased to respect the City-Watch: Police-sat... ... walked in formless immeasurability, having made itself like to the Night (Greek.)! But remark at least, for the first time, the singular empire of Su... ...s not Marquis Valadi hastily quitted his quaker broadbrim; his Pythagorean Greek in Wapping, and the city of Glasgow? (Founders of the French Republic... ...mings in. Intriguing and manoeuvring; Parliamentary eloquence and arguing, Greek meeting Greek in high places, has long gone on; yet still bread comes... ...r pans of incense; dispensing sweet incense- fumes,—unless for the Heathen Mythology, one sees not for whom. Two hundred thousand Patriotic Men; and, ...

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... armed. The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us... ... Henry as all that?” “You mean to keep proportion, and that’s heroic, it’s Greek, and I don’t see why it shouldn’t succeed with you. Go on and fight w... ...the little horse- shoes on the lower branches. Why has not England a great mythology? our folklore has never advanced beyond daintiness, and the great... ...s, but it grew in his soul. Remorse is not among the eternal verities. The Greeks were right to dethrone her. Her action is too capricious, as though ...

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...ok like a victim decked for the sacrifice?—the garlanded heifer you see on Greek vases, in that array of jewellery?” “My dear Clara!” exclaimed the as... ...e flute-playing behind the scenes, imitating the nightingale, enraptured a Greek audience! He would have suspected a motive in Miss Dale’s eager atten... ...Middleton, “is the observation of a student of the dictionary of classical mythology in the En- glish tongue.” “The Theatre is a matter of climate, si... ...e me as much Latin as I could take. The fault is mine that it is little.” “Greek?” “A little Greek.” “Ah! And you carry it like a feather.” “Because i... ...s. They pertain to the time of the first critics of those poets. Touch the Greeks, and you can nothing new; all has been said: ‘Graiis … praeter, laud... ...ds.” “I have beaten some small stock of Latin into her head, and a note of Greek. She contains a savour of the classics. I hoped once … But she is a g...

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..., and may be compared with his condemnation of the same arts when applied to mythology in the Phaedrus, and with his other parodies, e.g. with the two... ...otion, which is ‘really too bad,’ that Simonides uses the Lesbian (?) word, (Greek), because he is addressing a Les bian. The whole may also be consi... ...lity; and you say Where are the teachers? You might as well ask, Who teaches Greek? For of that too there will not be any teachers found. Or you might...

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... knows why, to swim there! I could understand better, for this, the truth of mythology, the fables of Proteus, and all those beautiful sea monsters, —... ...ndeed, put to a terrestrial use, is mere history; but put to a celestial, is mythology always. But there is the rough voice of Uncle George, who comma... ...did not learn whether this word was Indian or English. It reminded me of the Greek kogche, a conch or shell, and I amused myself with fancying that it... ...would sing us a Latin song; but we did not detect any Latin, only one or two Greek words in it, — the rest may have been Latin with the Indian pronunc... ...n verse with the spirit of the tree he fells, he cannot read the poetry and mythology which retire as he advances. He ignorantly erases mythological ...

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... at the mouth and along the brows, even in men. He was tall, and had clear Greek outlines: the lips were locked metal, thin as edges of steel, and his... ...ose forms of faith the princess had embraced. She answered that it was the Greek Church. ‘The Greek,’ said he, gazing harder at the portrait. Presentl... ...thing new in musical composition and abstract specula- tion of an indecent mythology, or political contrivances and schemes of Government, and we do n...

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... paraphrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustom... ...e, this has the very quality they are accustomed to look for and admire in Greek. The contemporaries of Burns were surprised that he should visit so m... ...me, and professes astonishment on principle. But he has no leaning towards mythology; avows his contempt for what he calls “unregenerate poetry;” and ... ...ontent to pick poetry out of his pages almost as you must pick it out of a Greek play in Bohn’s translation, your grav- ity will be continually upset,... ...an attain neither to Christian confidence, nor to the spirit of the bright Greek saying, that whom the gods 141 Familiar Studies of Men & Books love ...

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... a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues have scarce enough vitality in them to keep their monstrous b... ...bout a recumbent figure of Michael Angelo’s than about the most excited of Greek statues. The very marble seems to wrinkle with a wild energy that we ... ...uld be ‘cruel, lewd, and kindly,’ all at once. There is more sense in that Greek myth of Pan than in any other that I recollect except the lumi- nous ... ...e, pending your Centuries, etc., I do earnestly desire the best book about mythology (if it be German, so much the worse; send a bunctionary along wit... ...ame and for the sake of Bandusia. (13) Whatever you do, you’ll give us the Greek V ase. (14) Do you like Jonson’s ‘loathed stage’? V erses 2, 3, and 4...

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...this case, than if I had men- tioned sphinxes or griffins, whose existence mythology in a manner admits.” “As you are an Orientalist,” replied the oth... ... feared her. She was like some colossal statue fallen from the height of a Greek temple, so grand when seen afar, too roughly hewn to be seen anear. A... ...ow grown scanty, curled about his temples with a refinement of vanity. The Greek cap that he wore was pulled to one side by the weight of its tassel; ...

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...not human; he is a monster, an angel wanting wings. The angel of Christian mythology has nothing but a head. On earth, the righteous person is the suf... ...eir ideas, and said the obvious thing, after the manner of a cho- rus in a Greek play. He did not dare to give free play to the artist’s originality, ... ...owers of the prose writer; Pindar alone could give it forth to humanity in Greek that should rekindle the dying warmth of friendship in the world. Put... ...ustice of the peace said gently, addressing Schmucke. But the re- mark was Greek to Schmucke; he gazed in dismay at his three visitors. “We have come ...

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...lysis of Mind have thus invested their doctrine with an air of mystery and mythology which forms a large part of its popular attractive- ness. They sp... ...n, compare the dif- ferent appearances of the star to the conjugation of a Greek verb, except that the number of its parts is really infinite, and not...

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...te person. Mills did not give me time for a reply. He struck in: “That old Greek was famed as a wanderer -the first historical seaman.” He waved his p... ...aginations of such aunts and uncles are affected by such rare visitations. Mythology may give us a hint. There is the story of Danae, for instance.” ...